3 years ago I started researching the use of robotics in data centers when someone asked what will change the way data centers are built and operate. I put this post up back in June 2011 on a robotics expert I saw who was using robotics in interesting scenarios.
President Obama’s media event was fluffy with little technical content. Especially compared to the hour I spent on the same day listening to Hugh Durrant-Whyte, CEO of NICTA, ex research director at Australia’s robotics efforts.
Research Director
Professor of Mechatronic Engineering, Appointed 1995At the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, USYD
My research focuses on two main areas; navigation of autonomous vehicles and senor data fusion.
In navigation I pioneered the application of Kalman filter and target-tracking methods to the problem of robot localisation. This has had substantial impact in robotics; Many operational mobile robots now use these methods for localisation. I also introduced the revolutionary Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) method. Interest in SLAM is now exploding. My research work is now focused on general probabilistic SLAM problems appropriate to very unstructured, outdoor and underwater, environments.
DatacenterKnowledge has a guest post on the subject of robotics in the data center. This is the first of three part series.
This week Data Center Knowledge presents a three-part series on data center automation and the potential role of robotics.
I’ll see if the end comes to the same design conclusions I came at how data centers could be changed.